Benigne BASSET dit DESLAURIERS

(b. 13 November 1628 , Paris, France d. 5 August 1699 , Montréal, Canada, New France )

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Benigne BASSET dit DESLAURIERS was born 13 November 1628 in Paris, France

Benigne BASSET dit DESLAURIERS was the child of ? and ?

Benigne was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1659.

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Benigne married Jeanne VAUVILLIERS 24 November 1659 in Montréal, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jeanne VAUVILLIERS was born abt. 1639 in France. Jeanne died 30 July 1699 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul).

Benigne BASSET dit DESLAURIERS died 5 August 1699 in Montréal, Canada, New France .

son of Jean Basset and Catherine Coudreau

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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Benigne BASSET dit DESLAURIERS married

Jeanne VAUVILLIERS-- Date: 24 November 1659 Place: Montréal, Canada, New France

Children of Benigne BASSET dit DESLAURIERS and Jeanne VAUVILLIERS:

Jeanne BASSET (b.21 December 1667, Montréal, Canada, New France d. , )
m. Etienne MIRAY (MIRÉ) DE L'ARGENTERIE 29 September 1728 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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1628 Birth
13 November 1628
Paris, France

Biography
BASSET DES LAURIERS, BÉNIGNE, notary, clerk of court, and surveyor at Montreal, son of Jean Basset, lute-player for the pages of the king’s chamber, and of Catherine Gaudreau; b. c. 1639 in Paris; d. 4 Aug. 1699 at Montreal.

Bénigne Basset seems to have arrived at Montreal in 1657, together with the first Sulpicians, who made him their representative in the bailiff’s court. In 1657 also, following the assassination of Jean de Saint-Père, they appointed him seigneurial notary and clerk of the tribunal. He further became the secretary of the charitable organization and council of the parish of Notre-Dame. The Sieur Gaudais-Dupont appointed him royal notary, and his appointment was ratified by the Conseil Souverain on 18 Oct. 1663. When royal justice was abolished at Montreal (1666), Basset once more became a seigneurial notary. He was also a surveyor: we owe to him the plan of the first streets of Montreal in 1672. As a notary Basset, who made a proud show of his fine handwriting,...Read MORE...

Dictionary of Canadian Biography (www.biographi.ca)

1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1659 Marriage / Partner
Benigne BASSET dit DESLAURIERS and Jeanne VAUVILLIERS 24 November 1659, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

He was 31 years old.

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1667 Birth of Child
Jeanne BASSET was born 21 December 1667, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Benigne was 39 years old.

1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)